Re: Sendmail Daemon On or Off

[Steeve McCauley <steeve oneguycoding com>]

On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 15:09, Keith O'Brien wrote:
> I recently turned off the sendmail daemon on all of my boxes that were just
> relaying mail to our exchange server. 
> 
> One side effect this had was aliases no longer get translated. So it will
> now send mail but anything going to root does not go out. I haven't found
> one, but is there a way to alias root to an e-mail address while keeping the
> daemon off. 

Try creating a .forward file in root's $HOME.

> Also just wondering if most people leave the daemons on and just listen on
> the local host or turn off the daemon and deal with receiving root mail in
> another way. 

If I do turn off sendmail, I usually run 'sendmail -q'
in cron to flush any queued messages that havne't been
sent, for whatever reason.

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